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| − | {{navbox}}'''Intellectual Ventures''' can most kindly be called an "patent assertion cartel",<ref>http://people.ffii.org/~jmaebe/swpat/restart05/kahin-rationale.pdf</ref> but is often called a [[patent troll]]. According to The Economist, in 2009 Intellectual Ventures applied for about 450 patents for its own inventions and they are among world's top 50 patent filers. It was also reported they have raised over $5 billion to buy up thousands of patents.<ref>http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15570585</ref> | + | {{navbox}} |
| + | '''Intellectual Ventures''' can most kindly be called an "patent assertion cartel",<ref>http://people.ffii.org/~jmaebe/swpat/restart05/kahin-rationale.pdf</ref> but is often called a [[patent troll]]. According to The Economist, in 2009 Intellectual Ventures applied for about 450 patents for its own inventions and they are among world's top 50 patent filers. It was also reported they have raised over $5 billion to buy up thousands of patents.<ref>http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15570585</ref> | ||
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| + | Intellectual Ventures also sells patents to other trolls, such as the sale of US5,251,294 to [[Webvention LLC]].<ref>http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202472798134</ref> | ||
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** That article was a follow-on from IV's blog [http://hbr.org/2010/03/the-big-idea-funding-eureka/ar/1 The Big Idea: Funding Eureka!] | ** That article was a follow-on from IV's blog [http://hbr.org/2010/03/the-big-idea-funding-eureka/ar/1 The Big Idea: Funding Eureka!] | ||
** For a rebutal, see [http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/02/software-patents-are-the-problem-not-the-answer.php Software patents are the problem not the answer] | ** For a rebutal, see [http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/02/software-patents-are-the-problem-not-the-answer.php Software patents are the problem not the answer] | ||
| − | * [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080507/0114581051.shtml Ideas Are Everywhere... So Why Do We Limit Them?] | + | * [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080507/0114581051.shtml Ideas Are Everywhere... So Why Do We Limit Them?], 7 May 2008 |
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Revision as of 17:58, 4 October 2010
Intellectual Ventures can most kindly be called an "patent assertion cartel",[1] but is often called a patent troll. According to The Economist, in 2009 Intellectual Ventures applied for about 450 patents for its own inventions and they are among world's top 50 patent filers. It was also reported they have raised over $5 billion to buy up thousands of patents.[2]
Intellectual Ventures also sells patents to other trolls, such as the sale of US5,251,294 to Webvention LLC.[3]
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Patent trolls
- Similar organisations: Blackboard inc., Acacia Research Corporation
External links
- FFII's news about the launch of Intellectual Ventures
- Wikipedia's page on Intellectual Ventures
- BoycottNovell's page on Intellectual Ventures
- Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown
- Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’, 2010, New York Times
- That article was a follow-on from IV's blog The Big Idea: Funding Eureka!
- For a rebutal, see Software patents are the problem not the answer
- Ideas Are Everywhere... So Why Do We Limit Them?, 7 May 2008
